Wolf,

The Competition, Consumer Choice, Consumer Trust Review Team (CCT-RT) will meet in Johannesburg on June 24-25 to advance its work. Convened under section 9.3 of the Affirmation of Commitments, the CCT-RT is responsible for evaluating 1) how the new gTLD Program has promoted competition, consumer trust and consumer choice; 2) the effectiveness of the application and evaluation processes; 3) the effectiveness of safeguards put in place to mitigate issues involved in the expansion of the domain name space.

 

Our goal for Johannesburg is to:

- refine our draft recommendations in light of public comment received;

- incorporate DNS Abuse Study and trademarks recommendations in the Draft Report, as appropriate; and

- seek additional input from you and the community to help us shape our final recommendations.

 

Our draft report and translations can be found at https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2017-03-07-en.

There is still time to post a public comment on our current recommendations: the public comment period will close on 19 May 2017 – see https://www.icann.org/public-comments/cct-rt-draft-report-2017-03-07-en  for more information.

 

Please note that since new recommendations might arise from the study results scheduled to be delivered in June, it is our intent to post a Second Draft Report “Draft Final Report” for public comment.

 

Community input is key to the success of this process. As such, we welcome opportunities to hold additional engagement sessions. I realize that ICANN 59 will be a busy meeting but should you have time in your ICANN 59 meeting agenda, I would be happy to attend your session to deliver an update and collect your team’s input. If interested, please send me and cctrt-staff@icann.org an email to confirm a time.

 

I look forward to hearing from you and encourage you to follow our work via http://cct.wiki.

 

Many thanks,

 

Best regards,

 

Jonathan